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~ Alexandre Dumas Quotes ~
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Alexandre Dumas Quotes


A French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world.
Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.

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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2013, 11:45:48 AM »
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.

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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2013, 01:35:57 PM »
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.

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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters the former makes its exit.

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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2013, 01:38:02 PM »
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2013, 01:38:43 PM »
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.